Services Announced for Jacquelyn Smith

The 54-year-old Harford County woman was stabbed in an alleged robbery shortly after midnight, Saturday, December 1.

Jacquelyn Smith, 54, (here with her husband Keith Smith), a resident of Harford County, was stabbed to death in Baltimore on Dec. 1 during an alleged robbery attempt. (Twitter Photo)

Smith, an electrical engineer and resident of Aberdeen, had been out dancing with her husband, Keith Smith, at Madison Street American Legion, Friday evening.

“We danced a little bit,” Keith Smith told CBS. “Man, it was just a beautiful night.”

Driving home, Smith rolled down her car window for a panhandler at the Johnston Square intersection of Valley and East Chase Streets.

Immediately after an exchange with the panhandler, a man approached the car, stole Smith’s necklace and her purse, and stabbed her during the attack.

Smith died of her injuries at Johns Hopkins Hospital two hours later.

“This story struck my heart,” Oprah Winfrey said on her Twitter page. “I’ve done this a 1k times. But will think twice before ever doing again. To J.S. family I hope her death gets people ‘woke’ to change!”

Police are looking for an approximately 20-year-old Black woman and an approximately 30-year-old Black man with a goatee. The male suspect was last seen wearing a hoodie.

“The information we have is the information we have,” Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle told reporters. “Until we can disprove that, then that’s what we’re gonna go with. But we’re gonna leave no stone unturned when it comes to this case.”